My guess is that the conversion is done when burning the CD. I doubt it's done when doing a mixdown, as sometimes people copy a partial mixdown back to regular tracks before the final stereo mix.

As far as dither, I don't know if that must happen when converting from 24 bit to 16 bit, or there are other conversion techniques. I do know the word "dither" doesn't appear in the AW1600 manual (according to a PDF search).

I'm afraid it's not dithering but chopping. That means that the eight least significant bits are omitted. That is different from dithering where the least significant bit of the remaining 16 is randomly set to 0 or 1 depending on the removed 8 bits.

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Thanks for the replies! I figured that was the case, since its not mentioned in the manual. No problem really, I will just take the 24bit over to my pc and finalize it to 16bit with some dither there.

The capabilities and smart features of the 1600 are great to work with. It took a bit of adjustment coming from tascam, but when I reason out why yamaha engineers did things the way they did, the machine really opens up far more options than I was used to.

Whatever you do, Todd, make sure that any kind of 24 to 16 bit conversion takes place as late as possible in the mixing/mastering chain. In an ideal situation, your end result is still in 24 bit and not converted to 16 before writing it to CD in audio format.

BTW if your end result is in 24 bit, it would make sense to use the normalize function. Always check afterwards as normalizing is a harsh procedure from a technical point of view.

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